PSY 3103 Chapter Notes - Chapter 1: Radical Behaviorism, Behavioural Sciences, Cognitive Map
7 Mar 2017
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Chapter 1 applied behavior analysis behavior behavior analysis (or experimental analysis of behavior) behaviorism. A technology of behavior in which basic principles of behavior are applied to solving real-world issues. Any activity of an organism that can be observed or somehow measured. The behavioral science that grew out of skinner"s philosophy of radical behaviorism. A natural science approach to psychology that traditionally focuses on the study of environmental in(cid:211)uences on observable behavior. A philosophical school of thought which maintains that almost all knowledge is a function of experience. cognitive behaviorism. A brand of behaviorism that utilizes intervening variables, usually in the form of hypothesized cognitive processes, to help explain behavior. The mental representation of one"s spatial surroundings. countercontrol. The deliberate manipulation of environmental events to alter their impact on our behavior. empiricism evolutionary adaptation. In psychology, the assumption that behavior patterns are mostly learned rather than inherited. Also known as the nurture perspective (or, on rare occasion, as nurturism).
